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Wall tablet. Marble. Cartouche in marble with pinkish tinge. Black oval inscription tablet is framed in a wreath of leaves and ribbons, surmounted by a coat-of-arms; either side two cherubs, one blowing a pipe and the other holding an hour-glass. The whole cartouche mounted on swags. Incised white-painted lettering.

M.S.
HEN: WHITE Gent
oriundi ex familia vicu hunc
(ultra certain temporis Infcriptfione)
habitante, Qui non inutili curiofitate,
p varias, Angliae partes confupta juventute,
maturioris aetatis factus domum redyt, ut
tam experientiae suae, q innatae indolis indigena
participles faceret, quibis, dubium eft utru plus boni
contulerit ex placida & honesta converfatione, seu
indefefsa charitate, hifce modis vitam omnibus
jucundam protulit ad Anu caelibatus sui 72.
Tres Fratres, duas sorores: superftites, omnes quib
notus erat, inaeftos reliquit.
Praefertim
HEN
FRAN
IOHAN
WHITE Nepotes
qui hoc Monumentum Gratitudinis suae
pofuerunt.
Defiderari caepit 18 Nov 1677

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